Dry Cleaning take a more sombre turn on ‘No Decent Shoes for Rain’ taken from their upcoming album Stumpwork, out 21 October. It begins with Florence Shaw’s vocals coiled tightly over woozy guitar and minimal percussion: “my poor heart is breaking.” Shaw says “’No Decent Shoes for Rain’ is inspired by grief; grief over past relationships, grief for loved ones who have died, and all the things that come with that; loneliness, numbness, yearning,...
On Sunset Poem, experimental musician Claire Rousay reworks three songs from Circuit des Yeux’s otherworldly 2021 album, -io. The complete EP will be out on October 20th. Rousay’s work often utilises environmental recordings to cultivate rich and evocative ambience. Here, the composer unspools three -io compositions –’Vanishing,’ ‘Sculpting the Exodus,’ and ‘Argument’ – stripping back layers of instrumentation and sheltering Fohr’s voice amid a weave of hushed electronic textures. The results reveal a newly tender, meditative, and boundless space within the songs. Circuit des...
Remote Control Records welcomes the GOLDEN DREGS, to the roster. Founded in Falmouth, Cornwall in 2013, the GOLDEN DREGS is the project of Benjamin Woods, songwriter and producer currently residing in South London. From piano-man, bar-band, baritone karaoke-crooner to an all-singing-all-dancing seven piece, all guises of the GOLDEN DREGGS serve as a platform for Woods’s different musical output. Under the moniker he has released two albums in quick succession, Lafayette...
Tama Gucci aka Kymani Floyd, shares Almost Blue (After Hours Deluxe). His latest project features remixes of several tracks originally found on his Almost Blue EP. The project also includes a cover of the Britney Spears classic ‘Toxic,’ check out the accompanying video directed by Jonathan Qualtere below! The ‘Toxic’ video was imagined as an intimate companion piece to ‘Challenge’ and shares the same premise: Tama Gucci totally embodies the sense of being young, hot, fun and free. “The authenticity and self love he exudes and...
Float away with the Dunedin four-piece’s blissful new chiller ‘Something’ – the second from their upcoming debut LP Working Title out November 18th. Watch the music video to ‘Something’ directed by Martin Sagadin below! A change in pace from first single ‘The Way It Works’, the dreamy downtempo track is yet another shining example of Soaked Oats thoughtful lyricism and guitar-driven indie-pop sound. Drummer Conor Feehly recalls the recording sessions, saying “‘Something’ was...
Gena Rose Bruce returns with whirling new single ‘Foolishly In Love’, accompanied by an equally hazy film clip which see’s Bruce reflect while standing on vast seaside cliffs alongside some fluorescent-ly decorated drums. Watch below! During Melbourne’s extended lockdowns, Bruce began turning inward and shutting down around friends and family. Her close relationships felt laboured and social interaction responses insincere. She even began questioning her commitment to her partner. These anxieties bubbled over into fantasies...
Lucifer on the Moon is the anti-gravity companion to Spoon’s Lucifer on the Sofa. A top-to-bottom rework of the Austin band’s tenth album, it was created by On-U Sound founder and UK dub icon, Adrian Sherwood. The album will be released November 4th on LP and digital. Moon first took shape as a few heady remixes for the singles from Lucifer on the Sofa. Frontman Britt Daniel offered Sherwood two suggestions: “Avoid things that would not be possible on tape” and “Add whatever you...
Genre-bending singer/rapper/producer HAWA announces her debut album HADJA BANGOURA. HADJA BANGOURA is named for HAWA’s great-grandmother who passed away last year. Hadja’s spiritual presence on the album forms a vessel for healing as HAWA crafts a letter to herself through which to work past her toxic relationships. The announcement of the album is accompanied by lead single ‘GEMINI‘ which was produced by Tony Seltzer and Inef Coupe with a sole feature from ascendant experimental artist Eartheater. The song highlights HAWA’s silky smooth-yet-versatile...
Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) release their hotly-anticipated debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B. Last week, Jockstrap released a documentary by Rosie Marks on the orchestral recording session they did for the new record. Watch below! Featuring amazing behind the scenes content, the four-minute piece demonstrates the musical prowess and dedication to detail and complexity that have earned the duo well-deserved worldwide hype as the next big thing. Additionally, last Friday they released a sample...
Following her first BIGSOUND performance last night on the triple j Unearthed stage, and a first play on triple j’s Good Nights, today Melbourne DnB purveyor Memphis LK reveals the pop-tinged, energy fuelled ‘Whip’. Opening with sparse synths, ‘Whip’ quickly picks up the pace with high intensity beats underpinning Memphis LK’s euphoric vocals. On the dynamics, Memphis LK shares “Making dance music, I’m drawn to sounds that have conflicting moods, contrasting...
Patrick Watson’s critically acclaimed album Better in the Shade will be available everywhere in LP and CD formats October 7. The singer-songwriter also shares a brand-new video for the single ‘Height of the Feeling’ featuring La Force. Watch below! Director, Arizona O’Neill reveals ”after two years of feeling isolated during the pandemic…we wanted to make a video that reflected how jarring it is to return to social activities. In the black and white sections of the video, Patrick and La Force are singing while standing...
New Orleans no-wave punks Special Interest announced that they will release Endure, their third album and Rough Trade Records debut, on Friday, November 4th, 2022. The announcement was accompanied by lead single ‘Midnight Legend’ featuring iconic rapper, performance artist, poet and activist Mykki Blanco, and complete with a stunning music video directed by Special Interest vocalist Alli Logout. ‘Midnight Legend’ is described by Special Interest front person Alli Logout as “a love...
Sunbeam Sound Machine reveals ‘Paradise’, the second sonic dreamscape lifted from his third album Possum out on Friday, 7th October. The single is accompanied by an exquisitely shot film clip, watch below! Multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick Sowersby explains “This song is about the transience of true love, and there’s no better way to express that than by dancing in front of a 1985 Toyota Corolla out by the airport.” The bright new track plays between sparse,...
Oliver Sim and Jamie xx – producer of Sim’s highly anticipated debut solo album Hideous Bastard – continue their longstanding creative partnership with the release of a rare Jamie xx remix. Jamie has only ever released a handful of official remixes (for the likes of Radiohead, Adele, Four Tet and Florence and The Machine) and, on his first remix in over five years, he stretches the Brian Wilson-sampling original into a near ten minute dancefloor epic. Featuring additional production from Floating Points, it’s...
Daniela Lalita has announced the details of her debut EP Trececerotres, due out September 16th on Young. A direct reference to the apartment – 1303 – in Peru where Lalita grew up with her mother and grandmother, Trececerotres is rooted in magic, ritual, healing and the matrilineal relationship. The five-song EP features previously released single ‘Tenía Razón‘ and Lalita’s newest single ‘No Para.’ Premiering via a music video directed by Bradley & Pablo, ‘No Para’ sees Lalita dressed in her own hand-sewn garments, re-enacting...
THUS LOVE recently announced their debut album Memorial, out on Captured Tracks digitally October 7th & physically November 11th. The Vermont trio have now dropped the beat-driven, new-wave-post-punk inspired single ‘Family Man,’ with accompanying video. Watch below! “Family Man is a playful commentary on internalized capitalism and the mutual hardships of the working class in a binary world,” says THUS LOVE. “This song hints at an inevitable systemic collapse relieving all anguish.” Listen / purchase ‘Family Man’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save Memorial here.
